CANADA - Canada - Christine Jessop, 9, Queensville, Ont, 3 Oct 1984 - #1
From Thread 1, Page 4, posted by Dedpanman -- referrring to Detective Sergeant Neale Tweedy speaking at the Standing Senate Committee.
So, based on what this police officer spoke about, his team evaluated 27,000 people and compared DNA from 325 men. Yet CH was somehow overlooked in all of that.
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This is from
"Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs" Issue 44 - Evidence I post it here to provide context for those of you who don't know what happened after GPM was cleared in 1995 by the DNA evidence.
OTTAWA, Thursday, November 26, 1998
Detective Sergeant Neale Tweedy, Toronto Police Service, Canadian Police Association:
"I have been a police officer for 27 years, 17 of those as a homicide investigator, trainer and supervisor. As such, I have extensive experience in all facets of death investigation, including crime scene management, crime scene interpretation, evidence collection, suspect elimination, interviewing, law and procedure, information management, victim management and evidence presentation, to name but a few of the elements of the process. I previously have been acknowledged as an expert witness in the Ontario Court General Division in the discipline of homicide investigation.
During my time as a homicide detective, I have been involved in the investigation of a number of murder cases where rape was inflicted on the victim and was a primary or secondary motive for the crime. Christine Prince, Ruth Stern, Rupy Sanghera, Tania Anikejew, Nicole Morin, Andrea Atkinson, Kala Clauduz, Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffey, are names of but a few of the women and children whose lives were taken. Like a slide show, I can see the crime scenes in my mind's eye.
In January of 1995, I was placed in charge of one of Canada's most well publicized murder cases; the 1984 abduction, rape and murder of 9-year-old Christine Jessop of Queensville, Ontario. For 11 years Guy Paul Morin had been wrongfully accused, and DNA cleared him.
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Since that time, I have been attempting to identify Christine's killer, primarily through taking blood or saliva samples from possible suspects. My investigation required my team's evaluation of 27,000 persons. I have seen to it that approximately 325 men have had their DNA compared to the calling card that Christine's killer left. Many of these 325 are respectable citizens who were linked directly or indirectly to Christine as family, friends or neighbours.
As citizens of the country, and wishing to assist my investigation, they provided consensual samples of their DNA. It was really just a prick on the tip of their fingers. This allowed my investigation to move past the possibility that the killer was known to Christine or her family. The rest, and vast majority of the 325, were men with a history of sexual assault, pedophilia and murder.
Unfortunately, to date, I have been unable to identify this child's killer. In a world that is highly computerized, with databases everywhere, I was reduced to writing letters to 1,000 police agencies and forensic laboratories across North America in my search for the match to the DNA marker that was left at the murder scene. The possibility of Christine's killers slipping through the cracks of this investigative technique are very large indeed, and despite my best efforts, I cannot be satisfied that this has not occurred.
In my 27 years of policing, I can think of no piece of legislation that will have a more significant and direct impact on crime prevention than Bill C-3. The benefits will be seen immediately, and will directly equate into solving a greater number of these crimes. They will also have a meaningful deterrent factor resulting in less violence against victims, especially women and children."
